Do you want to start your own online TV station, create a weekly video blog or maybe you have a few videos to upload to popular video streaming services? Rarely is there a video that needs some editing before billions of people watch online; most video editing software is quite expensive and hog your hard-drive. Here are four free web-based video editing tools that would help with your editing needs:
Pixorial
Pixorial is an browser-based video editing tool where home movies and people interconnect. You can edit and remix this online content to create unique, customized video products. Options include transitions, titles, background audio and special effects. One your video is complete you can download the movie, post it to a social network, or order it on DVD. The final products retain the full quality and resolution of the master movies regardless of origin.
Since Pixorial is a browser-based editing tool (Safari not supported) there is nothing to download and can function under any operating system. The free version has a generous online storage of 10GB; Pixorial unlimited storage costs $30/year. Getting the videos on your Pixorial account is easy as sending an email or uploading online. Just about ever file type is supported including avi, flv, mov, mp4, mpeg, dv, rm, wmv, and 3gp.
Movie Masher
Those who want to have a browser-based video editing tool but without the limitation of a 3rd party server Movie Masher is worth a test drive. This is stored on your own web server. With movie masher you will be able to trim, compsite, timeshift, mix, edit audio tracks, add effects, add transitions and tiles.
Movie Masher is perfect for anyone who is going to develop their own video hosting site like the popular Break (break.com), Youtube (youtube.com) or Metacafe (metacafe.com).
Movie Masher: Editing Screen
Movie Masher: Examples
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Kaltura Community Edition
Kaltura Community Edition is a free, open-source, on-premise Video Platform. The platform enables video management, publishing, syndication and monetization, as well as providing a robust framework for managing rich-media applications, and developing a variety of online workflows for video. The latest version of the Community Edition also includes enterprise level administration and monitoring tools.
Kaltura Community Edition is ideal for:
- Publishers that want to host their own videos (including CMS like Drupal, Joomla, Moodle, Sakai, Blackboard and WordPress)
- Start-ups who want to become video service providers
- Web-developers that want to provide video management
- Businesses that want to manage video and rich media content behind the firewall
- Universities that want to manage video in conjunction with their LMS, or a campus wide video portal
Kaltura Community Edition supports live streaming; helpful for those who are looking to start an online TV station.
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YouTube
The YouTube Editor is located in the YouTube labs called TestTube; the editing tool is in testing stage there aren’t allot of video elements or transitions. The tool’s limited repertoire of video-editing tools includes trimming the beginning or end of clips, combining clips into one video, and adding a soundtrack from YouTube’s free AudioSwap music collection. If you plan on using YouTube for your video storage there is nothing so simple and friendly.
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The Sky is Mine
Australian-born American media magnate, Rupert Murdoch, claims he owns the word “Sky” and suing the online phone company Skype for illegal use of “Sky” in their name. Murdoch lawyers said, “the key contention in the dispute is that the brands ‘Sky’ and ‘Skype’ will be considered confusingly similar by members of the public.” This is going to be a Murdoch slippery slope; according to US Securities and Exchange Commission there are 226 companies that begin with the word “Sky” and 80 that have “Sky” within their company name.
I am an advocate for frugal tech; skype is the best deal in the US for alternative home phone service. Read: Frugal Home Phone Solutions.
Facebook Scam
If you are a Facebook user do not sign up to use the “dislike” button. A message saying ‘I just got the Dislike button, so now I can dislike all of your dumb posts lol!!’ is spreading rapidly on Facebook, tempting unsuspecting users into believing that they will be able to “dislike” posts as well as “like” them. However, security researchers say that it is just the latest ‘survey scam’, tricking Facebook users into into giving a rogue Facebook application permission to access their profile, and posting spam messages from their account. (Read More . . .)
Plane Flight Terror
Using off the shelf equipment and an open source software a group of hackers have created an airborne platform designed to sniff out WiFi networks. The small remote control airplane will fly over your home and grab all your data, irrelevant of your WiFi security. You might have to enter a password to access your WiFi, but this is a flyby hack and snack. The remote control airplane will hack into your WiFi, grab all your data and fly away in a matter of minutes. (http://www.diydrones.com/)
Dog Bed for Kings and Queens
Do you like to pamper your dog? The velvet dog bed is made in Germany and is covered with 95,000 Swarovski Crystals; the crystals are not uncomfortable for your pet, but instead feel like a massage.
Made to order, the bed can be adorned with your choice of color of Crystals. The cover is removable by a zipper and can be carefully washed by hand. The interior has an antibacterial/anti-allergenic filling. Cost: $16,600 (Buy It Here . . .)
Pick of the Week
Veetle: Veetle provides the next generation live broadcasting platform that can deliver extremely cost-effective streams at a massive scale with unprecedented quality. This unique platform enables content owners, broadcasters and websites to reach millions of concurrent viewers with the highest fidelity content possible, at little or no additional cost. To the average user this is a great source for watching online content, streaming personal DVD collections and catch-up on international sporting events.
